US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics, Politecnico Di Milano on Aug. 4 for "Constant charge control for DC-DC converters" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,793, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza (MB), Italy) and Politecnico Di Milano (Milan).

"Constant charge control for DC-DC converters" was invented by Lorenzo Cremonesi (Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy), Paolo Melillo (Caltanissetta, Italy), Alessandro Gasparini (Cusano Milanino, Italy), Massimo Ghioni (Monza, Italy) and Salvatore Levantino (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a DC-DC converter, including a high-side power switch coupled between an input voltage and a switched node and a low-side power switch coupled between the switched node and ground. An inductor is coupled...